I don’t have an issue with people making their own choices, even when I think they’re poor ones, but that doesn’t mean I think we should publicly celebrate them as if they’re choices worthy of emulation. I feel the same way when I see a story about an exceptional athlete with high need and Ivy-worthy stats who has accepted an athletic scholarship to a directional university. Not my circus, not my monkeys, but let’s not pretend this is a laudatory strategy.